On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:28:14 -0600, Mark A. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gilberto, > > At 09:51 AM 1/21/2005, you wrote: > >>Didn't Mark say something earlier which would imply that the followers of > >>Meher Baba have a somewhat stronger sense of unity.<< > > No, what I said was that the followers of Meher Baba believe that Buddha, > Jesus, Muhammad, Meher Baba, etc. are reincarnations of the same soul. > > >>He said that the avatars have one soul, and not many distinct souls as in > >>the Bahai faith.<< > > Yes.
Gilberto: I don't see what you didn't like about how I characterized what you said. Seeing the souls of the various figures as one instead of many is exactly what I had in mind by "stronger sense of unity". Gilberto: > >>And if we are talking about unity in the sense of tawhid, isn't Islam's > >>rejection of anything which seems like polytheism, or deification of a > >>human being in some ways more thorough than the Bahai faith's attitude > >>which tries to reconcile itself to Hinduism or the deity of Christ?<< Mark: > I don't think that Baha'u'llah was trying to reconcile the Baha'i Faith with > Hinduism (although He did point out how various views, including Hindu > advaitism, are valid from certain perspectives). Gilberto: What is the difference between recognizing Krishna as a Manifestation of God and pointing out at least the partial validity of advaitism and trying to reconcile with Hinduism? > > >>And finally (although this isn't held by all Muslims) what is a stronger > >>affirmation of wahdat al-wujud, the philosophical position of Ibn al-Arabi > >>which sometimes gets mistaken for polytheism?<< > > It is usually mistaken for pantheism (or perhaps, more accurately, > panentheism), not polytheism. > Yes, my brain was misfiring. I had meant to say was: "What is a stronger affirmation of unity than wahdat-al-wujud, the philosophical position of Ibn al-Arabi which sometimes gets mistaken for pantheism?" Peace Gilberto > Regards, Mark A. Foster â http://markfoster.net â [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger." ---- Abbie Hoffman > > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st > News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > -- "My people are hydroponic" __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
